Islander Controversy Ignites Debate Over NHL Rules

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00:00So we might as well start with that Islander controversy last night. I saw it what I liked about it was

00:06As you heard me say to you why the audience hasn't heard yet. I loved his post game presser where he just literally

00:14threw the NHL under the bus

00:17And in Toronto and their replay and the league and he just went to town and then you're telling me today

00:26He got away with it

00:28Yeah last I checked there hasn't been a fine and it's sort of funny

00:32I sort of chuckle at this because back in our day and I hate using that term

00:36I'm only 35 but 15 years ago

00:38This was a normal occurrence in the NHL where it was torts or it was somebody else would speak up in the media

00:44Be all pissed off and then we just move on with our lives

00:47But now it's a bigger story because it never happens

00:50It's a different hockey league and I think to your point you made in the break and you both made the the point the great

00:56Point is the NHL pride in fine him because they they knew he was right

01:00I mean like just look at the play and go and look back at it and sort of compare it to other plays that's happened

01:06Throughout this season in previous seasons. I don't know how that goal like I don't know what they were thinking there, you know, I

01:12Mean he had nothing to do with that crease and I thought the goalie shoved him in the gut

01:20with his stick and I I just thought it was terrible and obviously

01:25At a terrible time for the Islanders at the horse track to lose that game they couldn't afford to lose that game

01:32Pretty much. We're running out of racetrack in this season

01:36There's a full horse race

01:37Of course in the in the Eastern Conference when you look at Montreal you look at the Islanders that the New York Rangers every point

01:43Is so important Columbus in that conversation to that was last night's opponent for the Islanders

01:49You need every point you can get and this goes back to the whole

01:52Conversation of the gray area when it comes to goalie interference

01:56video reviews

01:57You just know this time you're the margin for error is razor-thin and you know

02:02Just watch the Islanders will miss the playoffs by a point and we'll look back at this game and be like what the hell?

02:07I just it's utter nonsense. It just doesn't make sense to me

02:10And even as somebody who covers this league on a daily basis

02:13I still don't know what is or what isn't goalie interference?

02:16So I have no idea how to comment when I see it happen